Ricochet Podcast #92: Diversity Training
If you want to know the real story behind unfolding events, the easy way is ask the experts. That's what we do this week. To get the story behind the drama that is the Herman Cain campaign these days, we're joined by National Review's Washington reporter Robert Costa. Then, we head to the Middle East and call on the expert's expert on the entire region; Hoover's Fouad Ajami. The lesson of today's show? It's nice to have smart friends.
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Music from this week's episode:
- This Is Why We Fight by The Decemberists
- Day-O by Harry Belafonte
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May '11
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Fouad vs. Bebe
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What a great clip! Thanks.
May '11
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Forty is not XXXX, it is XL
Dec '10
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Hey Robinson
It's dodging street cars, not subways.
Aug '11
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Just when I was feeling blue, along comes the Ricochet podcast, and my day ends spectacularly!
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You're right. That's what I get for not consulting the chart. A "M" lashes for me.
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My fault on the XXXX - should've caught that. I really should read the copy before, well, reading it.
Oct '11
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Blue Yeti
What a great clip! Thanks.
Indeed! [Be still, my heart...]
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Foxman: Hey Robinson
It's dodging street cars, not subways. · Nov 2 at 6:01pm
The Dodgers did indeed dodge streetcars, not subways. (If they'd been dodging subways, they'd have been the Miners.)
That's what comes of recording these things first thing in the morning.
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Peter Robinson
That's what comes of recording these things first thing in the morning. · Nov 2 at 8:42pm
Excuses, excuses.
Dec '10
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What does it mean to scrimmage in the snow. It means that the ground is hard and slippery. It means that your whole body tightens up against the cold. Of course, on every single play the object of the football player is to "hit somebody". You launch your body directly at an opposing player. If you are not alert you will get blind sided.
What it means to scrimmage in the snow is pain!!! Every single play hurts. I can remember standing as the snow lightly dusted the field and thinking "This is a game? A game!! If I ever get my hands on the guy who invented this game I'll..wham..I just got blind sided..groan."
It's sort of like this Presidential Campaign only no cheerleaders and Blitzer/Cooper make Cosell sound like Albert Einstein. Where's the fun in that?
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Ethan Safron
Peter Robinson
That's what comes of recording these things first thing in the morning. · Nov 2 at 8:42pm
Excuses, excuses. · Nov 2 at 9:05pm
Actually, this is all Rob's fault for starting this silly volume business in the first place (go back and listen). I'd love to kill it off once and for all.
May '11
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After listening to the first five minutes I had to stop what I was doing and get online and just say it....
Mr. Robinson, Peter, please tell you wonderful son to just suck it up! It's football for crying out loud! I say this with a smile on my face!
When I heard your reading of his text, my first thought was that your son was proud of himself and his team practicing in the snow. What the heck it is just cold and wet, you can deal with that for a few hours.
Not an attack on dear Peter or his wonderful son, just a comment, an observation, we played football in the snow in Canada too, meant you had to have a good ground game, as when the temps dropped and the snow flew you passing game alone would not do.
I'm sure your son will do well.
Snow, I miss it
Now back to work, and I'll listen to the rest of the podcast!
Domo
May '10
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I thought the "XXXX" designation meant that the podcast was filthier than "XXX" and a blatant attempt at boosting the ratings.
Jan '11
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Excellent!
EJHill
I thought the "XXXX" designation meant that the podcast was filthier than "XXX" and a blatant attempt at boosting the ratings. · Nov 3 at 6:49am
Could you make an animated gif please.
May '10
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Uh... no. Unless I decide that to quit Ricochet and go out in blaze of infamy.
Jun '11
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Herman Cain didn't sing Amazing Grace to the tune of Danny Boy. He sang He Looked Beyond My Faults. This made it so much more interesting given the context of the story swirling around him. By the way, he sang it quite well.
Jun '11
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The lyrics to that gospel song:
Amazing Grace will always be my song of praise,
For it was grace that brought me liberty.
I do not know just why He came to love me so.
He looked beyond my faults and saw my need.
I shall forever lift mine eyes to Calvary
To view the cross where Jesus died for me.
How marvelous His grace that caught my falling soul.
He Looked beyond my faults and saw my need.
May '10
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Rob at 27:35:
Sorry Rob, but my cynical self has to blurt in here:
I'll claim that you *can* change the standard. It's a measure of strength and power that you can. It's a declaration of who writes the rules. And afterward you get to say, "Neener, neener, neener." How cool is that? Quoth Mel Brooks, "It's good to be king!"
'Call it Strategic Hypocrisy.
Rob continues:
And yes [nodding]; that would certainly follow.